April 2, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| I was one of the 2% of people that are recognized as a legitimate whistleblower that found a dangerous policy and reported it. | |
| So I should have been protected. | |
| But the UN decided to ignore its own rules. | |
| It was very blatant. | |
| So within the UN system, I had named a woman called Catherine Pollard, who's the head of management, as the person who was leading retaliation against me. | |
| So Catherine Pollard told everyone not to investigate the retaliation against me, placed me under investigation for having told the truth, so the act of whistleblowing essentially, and fired me for it. | |
| So I was simultaneously recognized as having told the truth to the US and that that should be protected whistleblowing and fired for whistleblowing. | |
| It really is Orwellian. | |
| When you get into the kind of the ways the UN structures work and it's that kind of absolute power on the part of the managers. | |
| And that's part of the problem, because everyone who works at the UN has diplomatic immunity, so they can't be held responsible in court. | |
| I mean, this policy is complicity in human rights violations. | |
| You know, if you give China a name of somebody and they go to that person's family and torture somebody, You're criminally complicit in that act. | |
| But even though it's an international crime, nobody at the UN can be held responsible. | |
| So you have this extreme level sort of power differential where you've got dissidents who cannot speak out in China, who have managed to leave the country in a lot of cases or who are sort of descendants of migrants. | |
| who are in a position where they should be able to speak out, who are going to the one room on earth where you've got Chinese diplomats who are required to sit there and listen to dissidents talking about what's really happening. | |
| And then you've got these sort of very powerful bureaucrats that can essentially just ignore all of their rights because it's more convenient, because they don't feel like having an awkward conversation with an ambassador. | |
| And The U.S. is undergoing a process right now of some kind of increasing of transparency and accountability and cost-cutting within the U.S. government itself. | |
| Are you suggesting that something like this, the U.S. should apply something like this to the U.N.? | |
| The U.S. can't act alone when it comes to the U.N., but I think that there's enough member states, the democracies essentially, that recognize that there are problems. | |
| I mean, you see just the sheer number of sex abuse scandals within the U.N., even by their own reckoning. | |
| There are, and this is literally according to their own figures, there are 800 cases of sexual harassment or abuse. | |
| No NGO could sustain that. | |
| So I think there's a recognition that there needs to be independent systems. | |
| And it's actually very easy to do that. | |
| There's already been the votes in the General Assembly to have an independent ethics office, to have an independent investigation service. | |
| So you just need to separate it off from the Secretariat, have it report to the General Assembly. | |
| There's nothing here that's terribly difficult. | |
| So, yeah. | |
| As the largest donor, it's U.S. taxpayer money that is wasted on all of these ineffective oversight systems that don't work. | |
| So instead of having those, let's spend that money on systems that do work and that do root out the corruption. | |
| But so, you know, you're basically suggesting that with the next before the next, you know, payment is you know, hand it over to the UN on the US side. | |
| There should be some very specific rules with clear oversight ability to assess whether the requirements have been met, much the way, in this case, I think that the way that the CCP makes demands of the UN. | |
| Yeah, but the CCP demands get listened to because the UN takes them seriously, whereas they believe that the money from the US We'll always flu no matter what the law says in Congress. | |
| And that's a problem. | |
| Because at the moment, the corruption is very hidden. | |
| As you said, some of it's hiding in plain sight. |
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